With a sour papaya slice in her mouth, Xu Hongdou raised her eyebrows and looked at the tips of the branches.
It swayed slightly with the wind, swaying back and forth.
Her eyes followed the treetops and looked around...
It seems that I miss him a little bit.
Thinking of Zhang Wentao who was in another province, Xu Hongdou suddenly licked the corner of his mouth. Holding the sour papaya slices in his mouth, he felt a little sweet in his heart.
Nana saw the corner of the other person's mouth rising slightly and felt something, so she smiled and said, "What, do you miss him?"
Xu Hongdou said "hmm" and said, "I'm thinking about what to eat for him tonight."
After hearing this, Nana and Damai looked at each other in tacit understanding, and both understood each other's thoughts. Today's dinner will either be eaten at a small restaurant or settled at Gesanghua. Anyway... in short...
For a moment, the only thing left in the small restaurant with no customers was the clear call of the kingfisher.
"ding ding ding"
The sounds of several WeChat text messages rang on the three people's phones.
Damai took it out and saw a picture of a ham about the same size as the one hanging in the kitchen of the small courtyard on the top of the screen.
She opened her mouth in surprise, blinked and looked again.
Although Shi Tiandong had said that he would bring her Jinhua ham back, what she didn't expect was that it would be a whole ham.
When she reacted, she couldn't help but swallowed the saliva left due to greed, and then murmured: "How long will it take to eat this?"
Hearing what Damai said, Xu Hongdou also nodded.
She had cut the whole ham she bought several times, and every time she cooked rice noodles or stir-fried vegetables, everyone would use some as much as possible, but the amount was really a bit full.
She even felt that she might not be able to finish eating by the time she left here.
Moreover, if you look closely in the photo, you can see that there is not one ham, but several.
Just as she was thinking about it, her WeChat message rang twice more.
Zhang Wentao: Dou, give me your parents' addresses, as well as those of your sister and brother-in-law, um...and your uncle and aunt.
Zhang Wentao: The ham is too heavy. When I got to the airport, I planned to send it back directly, so I won’t take it back.
Looking at the plain text on the screen, Xu Hongdou's little hands clenched slightly.
The words had no emotion, and there were no expressions to express the tone of the words, but the emotion revealed between the lines touched Xu Hongdou's heartstrings.
It swayed gently like treetops in the breeze.
At this moment, sitting on the way back to HZ, Zhang Wentao in the passenger seat stared at the phone expectantly. After thinking aloud, the words "The other party is typing..." did not appear on the interface of the phone.
He frowned.
Is she still busy?
After thinking for a while, he found the contact list and made a call.
After only one ring, he was answered by the other party, which made him even more curious about Xu Hongdou's behavior of not replying to WeChat just now.
"Where have you been?"
But before he could think too much, a soft voice came from the other party on the phone.
Hearing this gentle voice, Zhang Wentao couldn't help but smile: "I was on my way back to HZ with Lao Shi, but I was delayed for a while because of something."
Xu Hongdou's voice was soft and waxy as she said, "Why did you buy so much ham?"
"Aren't we afraid that our parents would like to eat it?" Zhang Wentao said, but he tilted his head towards the car window and his voice became much softer.
Hear words, see things.
Shi Tiandong said "haha" and complained in his heart: Hypocritical...
Hearing this, Xu Hongdou's heart felt warm, but she quickly said: "You can only call me uncle and aunt now. Don't think that you can get through with just a ham."
Zhang Wentao looked at the passing scenery outside the car, then turned his head to look at the blue sky, and said softly to his mobile phone:
"Not one, but three."
Xu Hongdou: "..."
After the two chatted for a while, Xu Hongdou hung up the phone.
The joy hidden on his face had long been seen by Nana and Damai. Although they didn't know what Zhang Wentao said on the phone, the process must have been exciting.
Otherwise, Xu Hongdou, who is always polite and courteous, would not frown and be angry at one moment, and smile shyly at the next.
"Sister Hongdou, where are Brother Wentao and the others?"
Damai asked curiously.
Xu Hongdou glanced at the other party and said, "We're almost at HZ. We'll be flying back later. By the way, you guys can chat here first, and I'll go buy some food."
Nana nodded, thought for a moment, and when she saw Xu Hongdou getting up and preparing to go out, she couldn't help but warned: "Hongdou, don't add dark soy sauce to stir-fry vegetables."
"Old smoker?"
After hearing this instruction, Xu Hongdou hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said: "It's okay, he just likes to eat stir-fried vegetables with dark soy sauce."
After saying that, she lifted up her loose black hair, combed it into a ponytail with the rubber band on her wrist, waved naturally to the two of them, and left the quiet tavern.
Watching her go out and disappear behind the wooden window, Nana, who had not recovered, looked at Damai and murmured: "What did Hong Dou mean by what she said just now?"
"I don't know..." Damai was also stunned. In her impression, Brother Wen Tao seemed to be quite picky about what he ate.
Besides, I don’t seem to like eating too salty dishes.
"Maybe, this is love, as plain as water." After pondering for a while, Damai began to analyze: "When Brother Wen Tao and Sister Hongdou first developed a crush, I felt that they had something...
There is a feeling of respect and welcome.
At that time, I thought I might have seen it wrong."
"Respect each other as guests?" Nana was surprised and quickly shook her head and said: "How can I be as old-fashioned as you said?"
"Is that mutual support?" Damai scratched her head. She also felt that she didn't know how to describe it to describe that feeling more appropriately.
Nana also thought about it again and sighed: "I think, no matter what, only Hongdou can get used to Zhang Wentao's temper and personality.
If it had been anyone else, I'm afraid even if there were sparks from the collision, it would be hard to say what happened next."
"Maybe."
Damai murmured in response, but she felt that Sister Hongdou and Brother Wen Tao would definitely get together. However, she did not refute Nana's point of view.
After all, everyone's opinions are different, and Nana herself has little contact with Zhang Wentao and doesn't pay much attention to it. She may not even notice the changes in the other person.
Anyway, that's what she thought.
…
As time flies, night falls quietly.
After Jian Jian finished shopping, she returned to the apartment complex where she and Si Qing rented together.
While trying on the new clothes he just bought in front of the mirror, he listened to Si Qing talk about what he had experienced today.
"I never expected that you would encounter something like this when you went to collect a debt. How could that aunt do this? Things always have to be solved. Is there a way to escape?"
After hearing what his best friend said, Jian Jian couldn't help but feel sorry for Si Qing.
"Who says it isn't? Hey." Si Qing, who was sitting on the sofa and had already changed into pajamas, also sighed. Thinking that the subsequent collection work would definitely encounter many twists and turns, she inevitably felt a little melancholy:
"If it weren't for the fact that I was being promoted in the industry, I wouldn't have wanted to take it. But the president found me, so..."
"You are just trying too hard."
Jian Jian understands her best friend. From the day they met, she knew that this good friend, who looked picturesque, had an outstanding temperament, and was pretty, was stubborn at heart.
I always want to rely on my own efforts to gain recognition from others.
Instead of relying on a fair face to impress people, it’s just...the workplace is too complicated.
Thinking of the people and things that her best friend had cried about when she was drunk, she was a little worried about whether she would be able to have the future she wanted because she always relied on her own efforts.
After all, the collarbone covered by the white sand collar is always faintly visible. In addition to making people think, it can only support the small shoulders.
But...looking at Si Qing in the mirror, Jian Jian narrowed his eyes.
Under her collarbone, the slightly raised white sand seemed to be thinking about something. She lowered her head slightly.
He looked at his slightly bulging belly.
It’s impossible to update after it’s released, that’s what I’m saying.